Examines imported diseases and their impact on Pacific Northwest Indigenous peoples
Robert T. Boyd is a research anthropologist at Portland State University and coeditor of Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia.
"[A] valuable and very welcome addition to the literature. For
anyone doubting the impact of settler society on Native worlds of
the Northwest Coast, it should be required reading."
*BC Studies*
"[T]he most comprehensive, detailed monograph on the impact of
imported diseases within a single region of North America. Boyd
makes an important contribution in having so meticulously
documented the medical, demographic, and cultural responses to
catastrophic epidemic disease and high mortality…"
*Ethnohistory*
"A data-rich, well-written, authoritative work."
*Choice*
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